O.C actress Mischa Barton has admitted that she tried to shake her British accent when she moved to America.

Mischa was born in Britain and raised by British parents, but moved to New York when she was younger.

She told The Daily Mail: “I went to classes and everything. I ended up putting on this terrible ‘Nu Yawk’ accent and hid behind that for a while.”

“Now I don’t try to hide it so much, but my accent slips all over the place. It’s a mess – I don’t sound like I’m from anywhere anymore.”

The 23-year-old added: “I haven’t lived [in Britain] since I was tiny, but my entire family is British and I’ve been raised as a Brit.

“My sister lives and works in London as a barrister, but nobody can get their head round the fact I’m anything but a Hollywood girl. In the US nobody thinks of me as American, and here, nobody believes I’m British.”